“In response to Coffee Challenge: Why I want to be a better me in 2022” — If at this time of the year, you are looking at your resolutions, life and experiences and thinking about how it didn’t go as you wished, don’t beat yourself up because here are a practices, mindset and beliefs that helped me in 2021 and they might help you reflect or…

Who Needs Bios, I Can Make This About Me Post As Long As I Want! — I wrote earlier about most social media bios being too limiting to describe what you do and your accomplishments but with this About Me post, I can write a bio as long as I want. Thank you About Me I really can’t remember the first time I started writing, I…

Ideas might be a dime a dozen but… — You have an idea worth a million dollars. When I finished University, I had the idea to start a franchise for Fura. It was a popular drink in the north where I schooled but not so much in the South where I live. At the time, I wrote it down…

If You Lean Into These… — Many have spoken about the scam that being an adult is. We thought it was all about being free to do whatever the fuck you wanted without any consequences because, after all, no one can beat you. …

Read this and breathe easy. — One of the things we forget to be grateful for is that we gain a better understanding of our lives and experiences as the years go by. We can now name them as vocabulary improves to explain the formerly lesser-understood phenomenon. One of those is a funk. …

How to network in an organic way — As an introvert, networking is one word which at best, makes me uncomfortable and, at worst, makes me cringe. I keep oscillating between strategically meeting people and letting the universe bring people it thinks I need my way. But as I reminisce on my network, I realize where the missing…

There’s more to achieve than money and fame — I didn’t get married, make a shitload of money, but I achieved big things! Life is typical in a lot of Nigerian homes — family members begin to run helter-skelter when their daughter hits the proverbial 30s without a husband. …

Written because I am no longer waiting for other people to define me — In my attempt to define myself through the eyes of others, I often wondered what people thought of me. Do they think I am kind, compassionate, giving, and supportive? I even went as not so far as to imagine what they would say at my burial. This thought goes to…

It is almost magical — For the month of November’s Put Yourself Out There Challenge, 14 people signed up and in their response forms, most of them reported the following for not putting themselves out there: Fear and anxiety, Fear of rejection, Thinking they are not good enough, Being afraid of criticism, Being afraid of…